Zacharry Georges
Professor’s Shaw & Webster
Writing Seminar 03
July/18/2016
Final I made to the end of this painful and almost useless experience in my life. Last year of high school, if it anything like last year I sure to succeed with flying colors. I sure did succeed but it left utter helpless and hurt. My teachers decided to go with a more multidisciplinary approach to teaching the senior class using topics we may have learned in elementary, such climate change. This led to teachers that are not qualified to teach math, teaching math, what kind airheaded idea was this? At the end of all of this, we had a final project where we had to find our own topic and follow their multidisciplinary approach. My topic was the lack of creativity within …show more content…
I have to say at the beginning of it all I had high hopes for my teacher's idea but once I saw how they implemented it, it was a huge disaster. Their goal was answering the need for a new approach to education that can motivate students to perform better. The with this whole process is that we have yet been able to completely adapt to the primary discourse used within schools, that changing it in the manner they did only confuse use more and makes it even harder t adapt to an academic discourse, leaving us scatter amongst many different discourses and never really holding on to one. In “Home and Away: The Tensions of Community, Literacy, and Identity,” Bronwyn T. Williams writes to fellow educators so that they change their single-minded approach towards educating students and take into consideration that students react differently to different discourse due to their culture and background. In order to achieve this aim, he uses …show more content…
“My father, on the other hand, growing up the son of a coal miner in a small town during the U.S. Depression, made a clear choice after leaving home to embrace the discourse of middle-class academic life. He adapted to it thoroughly, in his work and at home, to the degree that his relationships with his parents and sister became strained and almost irreparable. The crucial dispute between them was often about how he had changed since going to college” (Williams 345). Williams said that a person’s discourse is their identity, however, his father changed his identity to accommodate a new life, the one he wish to live. He adds this story about his father to show it's possible to adapt to another discourse. To give structure to his article and give clear organization cues for the reader to understand his claim he uses section title. For instance the section title “The tension between home and school,” by the title alone, you can tell the section is going to be about the challenges students face with a class because their home setting is completely different. He brings up a specific moment when a student had difficulty understanding everyone else. There was a girl who was so used to seeing people argue with intent meaning them but all their emotions defend their case. So when her peers were speaking in a “disturbingly aggressive” tone at one another while discussing an idea she was positive
Professor’s Shaw & Webster
Writing Seminar 03
July/18/2016
Final I made to the end of this painful and almost useless experience in my life. Last year of high school, if it anything like last year I sure to succeed with flying colors. I sure did succeed but it left utter helpless and hurt. My teachers decided to go with a more multidisciplinary approach to teaching the senior class using topics we may have learned in elementary, such climate change. This led to teachers that are not qualified to teach math, teaching math, what kind airheaded idea was this? At the end of all of this, we had a final project where we had to find our own topic and follow their multidisciplinary approach. My topic was the lack of creativity within …show more content…
I have to say at the beginning of it all I had high hopes for my teacher's idea but once I saw how they implemented it, it was a huge disaster. Their goal was answering the need for a new approach to education that can motivate students to perform better. The with this whole process is that we have yet been able to completely adapt to the primary discourse used within schools, that changing it in the manner they did only confuse use more and makes it even harder t adapt to an academic discourse, leaving us scatter amongst many different discourses and never really holding on to one. In “Home and Away: The Tensions of Community, Literacy, and Identity,” Bronwyn T. Williams writes to fellow educators so that they change their single-minded approach towards educating students and take into consideration that students react differently to different discourse due to their culture and background. In order to achieve this aim, he uses …show more content…
“My father, on the other hand, growing up the son of a coal miner in a small town during the U.S. Depression, made a clear choice after leaving home to embrace the discourse of middle-class academic life. He adapted to it thoroughly, in his work and at home, to the degree that his relationships with his parents and sister became strained and almost irreparable. The crucial dispute between them was often about how he had changed since going to college” (Williams 345). Williams said that a person’s discourse is their identity, however, his father changed his identity to accommodate a new life, the one he wish to live. He adds this story about his father to show it's possible to adapt to another discourse. To give structure to his article and give clear organization cues for the reader to understand his claim he uses section title. For instance the section title “The tension between home and school,” by the title alone, you can tell the section is going to be about the challenges students face with a class because their home setting is completely different. He brings up a specific moment when a student had difficulty understanding everyone else. There was a girl who was so used to seeing people argue with intent meaning them but all their emotions defend their case. So when her peers were speaking in a “disturbingly aggressive” tone at one another while discussing an idea she was positive